Lyman
Lyman reached its high-water mark in 1917 at number 380, and has been recorded 8,559 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 2,400 Lymans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lyman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,559
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 380th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Lymans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,559 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,400 are alive — 29 in every hundred. Roughly 160 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lymans
- Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997)American astronomer
- Lyman Abbott (1835–1922)American theologian, editor, author
- Lyman Lemnitzer (1899–1988)American general
- Lyman Hall (1724–1790)American physician
- Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder
- Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963)American engineer
- Lyman Hine (1888–1930)bobsledder
- Lyman J. Gage (1836–1927)American financier and 42nd Secretary of the Treasury
People named Lyman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lyman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lyman is most concentrated in Missouri (3.6×), Kansas (3.0×), Utah (3.0×), Wisconsin (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Lyman peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.